A six-year-old’s perspective on decent piano playing.

Thanks to Julie for the pointer. :-)

This article hasn’t lost anything in the past 3 years: in fact, it may have gained quite a bit.

The Seattle Public Library has been working on its new Central Branch almost since we arrived in town five years ago. This past week, the building re-opened, to nationwide fanfare.

We went downtown today to check things out for ourselves.

That’s Just Wrong.

Randy Brown, Fox PM, is obviously quite impressed with the new Seattle library building. :-)

Daddy: “Oh, man, you beat me again! How come you keep doing that?”

Erin: “That’s ’cause I have faster energy!”

…but is Microsoft really a cheap whore?

(Thanks, Ed!)

More or less.

Long-time Fox expert, Christof Wollenhaupt (nee Lange) just got married this past week.

In VFP, there are a bunch of ways to turn off XP Themes. One of them is to select the EXE’s Properties in Windows Explorer and turn them off there. A while back, I needed to write a test that would verify this actually worked, but I didn’t want to figure out how to click that option in Explorer. After searching MSDN, I came up with the following.

*!* We can turn Disable Visual Themes on with a batch
*!* file: we don't need to set the property in Windows
*!* Explorer.

TEXT TO lcBat NOSHOW
 set __COMPAT_LAYER=DisableThemes
 ThemeForm.exe
ENDTEXT
STRTOFILE(lcBat, "ThemeForm.bat")

*!* Run the program
RUN /n ThemeForm.bat

There’s More Than One Way To Skin A Fox(tm). :-)